About B.A. Port B.A. Port is a business owned by Dave Orme and Skip Pratt. Their backgrounds in software programming, inter net and ecommerce development and management have given them over 40 years combined experience in the software, inter net and infrastructure business. Dave and Skip are also both inter net marketers, offering software utilities and online services to their client base. Their experience in dealing with slow response and expensive hosting firms inspired them to start and operate B.A. Port. Dave and Skip are backed up by some of the highest caliber and experienced telecom and data center engineering staff. Our engineers have been in key management and indivual contributor roles with top inter net service providers and web hosting companies. If Dave and Skip cant help you, our systems and network engineers surely will. We will be accountable. We will be available. You can call or email any time and expect prompt replies About Dave Dave is the developer of the highly successful Instant line of software products, now found powering websites numbering in the thousands across the Inter net. His tools are aimed at do-it-yourself webmasters who do not want to take the time to learn complicated programming languages and methods. Daves focus on simplicity and ease of use is chronically focused on his target webmaster customer. Dave is a fanatic about making it easier for webmasters to build great websites easily and inexpensively. Daves first software releases comprised the launch of his software company, Instant Software, found at Instant Web Site Tools on the web. His initial software offerings in July 2002 included: Instant Site Maker Instant Affiliate Link Masker Instant Email Scramble Instant Bookmark Instant Meta Maker In the first month of release of Instant software products, thousands of copies of Instant Software webmaster tools have been purchased and distributed worldwide. In September 2002, Dave released the web site tool Instant Pop Up Subscriber to the market, which is now enjoying record sales. Dave is currently working on a number of software projects that will be released in Q4 of 2002. Several of these will be brand new technologies providing considerable return on investment for clients. Dave is a rare person. He insists on giving exclusive purchase offers to his newsletter subscribers. If you want to be aprised of his latest releases, send a blank email to: Newsletter to join his newsletter. Daves Career With over 15 years in the I.T. industry Dave began his computing career as a COBOL mainframe programmer. A member of the Inter net community since early 1995 Daves area of expertise now lies with JavaScript, Perl and php programming integrated with mysql and Postgres databases. Dave who lives in the North West of England and has carried out programming and database work for companies such as British Gas, NorthWest Water, Autotrader and Nottingham University Medical School. Daves Family Life Married with two young daughters, Dave enjoys spending time with his children, exercising at his local gym and playing old 1980s arcade games of which his current favourite is Pac Man (all time high score 336,580). Contact Dave Orme via email. About Skip Skip has a successful career in the high tech industry first as an engineer and subsequently in sales and management. He founded a successful tech consulting firm that grew to $8 million in revenues with 65 employees. He served as a Vice President at a public Fortune 500 company managing the electronic commerce department for their largest division. He has served as a Vice President of business Development at a public software company. Skip is the founder and owner of Knowledge Download, an ebook website software and services company, and is partners with Dave in the incredibly successful Instant Web Site Tools software business, which makes webmaster software utilities for do-it-yourself webmasters. Skips Family Life Skip and his wife live in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. They have three children, two of whom are in college and one who serves our country in the United States Army. Contact Skip Pratt via email